gadfly56
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
- Occupation
- Professional Engineer, Fire & Life Safety
Ahhhh, did you mistake a "G" for an "M"?When the typical nuclear powerplant generates 600 MW(e) and contains 100 tons of fuel rods, something that generates 1 MW(e) and weighs less then 40 tons* definitely qualifies as "small".
* just guessing about its weight, based on "fits on a truck".
No details in this article, but Wiki shows SMR's up to 1GW are not necessarily a pebble-bed reactor design.